Welcome to the Polynational War Memorial, a proposal for a war memorial for all wars since World War II, which will include the names of more than 10 million killed soldiers and civilians. This website presents the project in detail. New sections have recently been added to the site.
The design proposal for a polynational war memorial, which is currently being created, will serve as a prototype for the future building complex. This section outlines the program of the war memorial and its institutions and is updated as the project evolves.
A new section - Presentations - has been added to this website. This section includes information about the public presentations of the project, such as exhibitions and lectures. You can now preview the video that explains the program of the Interfaith Centre that was designed by Testbedstudio.
This article introduces a series of articles from a journey to Normandy and the beaches where allied forces landed when they invaded France on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
This is the full interview with Peter Tonkin of TZG Architects in Sydney that was made in 2003. Peter Tonkin has designed several war memorials, sometimes in collaboration with artists, for example the Memorial to the Australian Forces in the Vietnam War, in Canberra, and the Memorial to the Australian Forces in WWI and WWII, in London. In this video he´s talking about those and other projects, about utopianism in architecture and war memorials in general. Camera: Karin Willén. Interviewer: Jon Brunberg
You can now view an excerpt from the video "Polynational War Memorial, Part 3: the Interfaith Centre". The Quicktime player is needed to view the video. The video explains the program of the Interfaith Centre that was designed by Testbedstudio. Soundtrack by Fred Saboonchi and voice by Lisette Merenciana.